I'm not as popular with readers as I was in Complete Insanity... (sob sob) But I'm still here writing the story, so I'll live. I have now realised Smallville is an awesome shows now on my awesome list. Yay for Tom Welling!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything except Amethyst and the story. The plotline has been borrowed from Carroll's version, but has been terribly changed, as you will see. Fu fu...

Ryou Rabbit gave off another blast of his trumpet and as Amethyst opened the shutters so she could see outside, he was racing off towards the woods. There was hardly enough room about her to be comfortable in, but she had to make the most of it. A few minutes later, Ryou had come back and was jumping about the place, very nervous.

"Dodo Duke, there's a houster in my monse, I mean there's a moster in my houuse, I mean, just go and look for yourself, Dodo," At this, Duke looked in Amethyst's direction and jumped.

"My my! So it is! It's a giant monster this, isn't it?" Duke walked over to where her foot was on the lawn and tapped it with his walking stick. It was like throwing Tic Tacs at your mate, knowing it'll take a very good shot to kill them. Duke did the same to her other foot then turned to Ryou.

"There's a simple solution to this. We'll pull it out of the chimney. Now what we need is..."

"Yes, yes?"

"What we need is..." Suddenly, there was a whistling noise and the pair turned to face the road. It was a teenager with blond messy hair. He was dressed in clothes you may expect a chimney sweeper to wear and was carrying a ladder. Duke grinned, then finished his sentence; "... a boy with a ladder!" Ryou ran toward the chimney-sweeper.

"Joey! We need a ladder with a boy, no, a badder with a loy, no, a boy with a ladder, come on!" He dragged Joey towards Duke.

"Tell me lad, have you ever climbed down a chimney?" Duke asked, propping Joey's ladder against the wall. Joey nodded, and in a Boston accent replied;

"Sure guv'nor! I've climbed loadsa chimneys in me life, guv."

"Great, m'lad. Now go up there and pull the monster out."

"Got ya guv!" He began his ascent and as he came into Amethyst's view he looked at her. "M-m-m-monster?! ARRRRGGGHHH!!" He fell back down and raced towards the front gate. Ryou and Duke raced toward the gate and grabbed Joey. They frog-marched him back toward the ladder. Duke chased Joey up the ladder and onto the roof. There was a great deal of tapping and running, and she could only just make out some dialog.

"Come on Joey... see, you'll be okay... good luck Joey." Then there was a muffled yell as he shoved Joey down the chimney. Smoke filled her nostrils and she sneezed. There was a POOF! as Joey flew from the chimney.

"Well. There goes Joey." Duke said, pointing his walking stick to the sky. She looked as best as she could, then muttered; "Poor Joey."

"Now, what else could we do. We could..." Duke lit a match.

"Yes, yes?"

"No, we could..." The match continued to burn

"What, what?"

"We – arrgh!" The match has burned for too long and burnt his fingers. He shook them, and placed them in Ryou's birdbath. "By Jove, that's it! We'll burn the house down!"

"He he, burn the house – NOOOOO!!! Not my lovely house!" Ryou yelled as Duke got various things scattered about the lawn and put them in a pile near Amethyst's foot. She shook her head and sighed. Now I'm going to be burnt to a crisp – almost as bad as Kaiba's cooking. I've another idea on what to do with Kaiba, but I haven't exactly got the room to write it here. Duke placed some straw from then roof onto the pile, then asked Ryou for a match. He lit it and put it on the pile.

Amethyst looked about her worridly. There must be something I can do before becoming barbequed girl. She then noticed Ryou's garden. Maybe if I eat something... She reached out for a carrot. Unfortunately, Ryou saw her hand and raced to protect his vegetables. Ignoring him, she pulled one out and snagged Ryou's tunic.

"Help! Help! The monster's got me! Help! Help!" Ryou yelled as she pulled him into the house near her face. She winced slightly as he continued to shout.

"Shut up, I've gotta eat something!" She yelled back at him.

"But not me, don't even think of eating me!" She stopped listening and took a bite of the carrot in his hand. His hand fell back into his jacket and he screamed, thinking she had bitten his hand off. Almost instantly she began to shrink, and rapidly at that. Her feet and her hand slid back into his room and Ryou fell down the stairs. He looked at his watch and raced out of the door.

"Hey! I'm late! Oooh, the Duchess is gonna kill me! I'm late! Sorry, gotta go, bye." And he raced off somewhere. Amethyst took her time to climb down the stairs that were twice as high as her. She crawled under a crack in the door and ran across the path. Duke was still trying to light the fire. He turned to her.

"Do you have a match, my child?" She shook her head.

"No. I don't. Now leave me alone!" And she ran off into a nearby field. Duke sighed.

"No co-operation these days. Can't have monsters living out, can we?" He slowly got back to work on setting Ryou's house on fire.

Another one done. Phew, I'm about 2 or 3 chapters ahead of the actual fiction. Coz in Complete Insanity it was written completely off the top of my head. Heck, even I didn't know what it was gonna turn out. (sigh)

Also, I very kindly requested a picture on Fanart Central of Amethyst and it is finished. If you want to see it, I will provide the link. However, someone else drew the picture (Crazy-kins) and it doesn't belong to me.

REVIEWER REPLIES:

samuraiduck27: Thanks again! I wrote the names down without a thought then I realised it was alliteration. Yay for alliteration!

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